Caita Có, a remote place in Argentina where this year of drought 64 quintals of soybeans could be harvested

In the year of the great drought, where news of production failures abounded, at the Caita-Có farm, located 45 kilometers west of Conesa, in the province of Río Negro, they achieved a yield of 64 quintals per hectare of soybeans. Of course there was irrigation. The field is on the south bank of the Río Negro, and it is accessed through a gravel road that connects Conesa with Choele Choel. It has 8,200 hectares, of which the majority is devoted to breeding stock. But on 400 hectares agriculture is done under irrigation and with different formats. Jorge Mazzieri is the agronomist in charge of managing the establishment and told Bichos de Campo that “we have 400 hectares irrigated in three ways: one of 180 hectares with flood irrigation, with Australian gates that pour 500 liters per second; another with three pivots that add up to 210 more hectares; and we have a third sector of 22 hectares with buried drip irrigation”. The lot in which the 64 quintals of soybeans were harvested ...